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Thoughts at the Threshold of the Exascale Era
An exaflop is an arbitrary milestone, a nice round figure with the kind of symbolic lure the four-minute mile once held. And as we know, there are three stages to these computing milestones that have occurred about once a decade. First comes peak exaflop performance, then a Linpack/TOP500 exaflop, and finally the one that counts …

Computational Approaches for Cancer – Looking Around the Corner
Eric Stahlberg, PhD Director, Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research Looking ahead to the sixth Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop (CAFCW) at SC20, I am extremely excited about how the HPC community has embraced cancer research and how far we’ve progressed in such a short time. Five years ago, …